CARL BOARD UPDATES
Since the start of 2022, CARL, like all COVID life events, slowed down. Nevertheless, we had great success with our second virtual CARL conference! Approximately 100 library professionals attended the two day conference, which featured two great keynotes, Dr. Tara Yosso and Sandy Enriquez. In addition to the conference, CARL Interest Groups hosted workshops (SCIL Works and DIAL online “chats”) this year. Read below for more updates from the CARL board…
Advocacy
Earlier last month, the CARL Board lent its support to ACRL’s efforts in advocating for public access to federally-funded research by sending letters to members of Congress seeking their support in protecting Sec. 2527 of the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (S. 1260).
Membership Meetings
Based on the positive feedback received at the CARL Conference general membership meeting, the CARL Board is excited to announce regularly scheduled membership meetings. Each membership meeting will focus on a targeted topic. A survey on possible meeting topics will be sent to the CARL listserv and posted in the Your Membership portal soon. Please stay tuned for additional details.
Board Recruitment for 2023
As Fall approaches, CARL will conduct an election for leaders to run the organization. This election cycle includes a Vice-President, Director-at-Large from University of California, and Membership Director. CARL is a member-led organization that impacts librarians in the state, region and nationally. The Nominations and Elections committee is inviting nominations of CARL/ACRL members who would make great leaders helping CARL meet its mission of advocating for academic and research librarians and library personnel, and all other information professionals that serve academic and research institutions. CARL provides these through a biannual conference, workshops, spaces to exchange ideas and award/grants to grow. If you have someone who would be a great leader, contact Kelly Janousek, kelly.janousek@csulb.edu.
DAL Liaison Assignments
Lastly, the CARL Executive Board would like to announce our 2022 Director-at-Large liaison role assignments:
Interest Group Coordinator: Edeama Onwuchekwa
My name is Dr. Edeama Onwuchekwa and I am the Equity and Engagement Librarian in San Diego Mesa College. On the CARL Executive Board, I serve as the Director-at-Large (Community Colleges) and also the Interest Group Coordinator. As the Interest Group Coordinator, I am the liaison between the interest group leaders and the CARL officers and Board of Directors. I have the responsibility to regularly inform Interest Group Leaders of CARL activities, and orient interest group leaders with respect to CARL policies and procedures. I will also seek to ensure that interest group programs and other activities are announced and reported in CARL publications, electronic communications, and other channels.
Awards Committee Liaison: Ken Lyons
Greetings fellow CARLers! I'm Ken Lyons, recently retired long-time reference librarian at UC Santa Cruz, serving my second of a two-year term as UC Director-at-Large. I've also been involved in CARL for over fifteen years in various capacities, and am a co-founder and chair-emeritus of the ALIGN interest group. As well as representing the perspective of UC librarians on the CARL Executive Board, I am chair of the ad-hoc Web Assessment Committee, charged with reviewing CARL's website and membership-management platform, and making recommendations for the future of these systems. I also serve as the Awards Committee Liaison, tasked with overseeing the efforts of CARL's four awards committees, two of which (Outstanding CARL Member and Research Grant) I currently chair.
ACRL Chapter Council Delegate: Laura Wimberley
My name is Laura Wimberley, and I serve as the Director-at-Large representing the California State University system. I’m also our liaison to the national Association of College & Research Libraries. My library career began when I earned my MLIS from San Jose State, so I’m a proud alumna of the CSU. I’ve been working at CSU Northridge since 2011, starting as an adjunct librarian. Currently I’m the Assessment Librarian, and I’ll also be stepping up as chair of our Department of Research, Instruction, and Outreach Services this summer. For the past three years, I’ve been a member of the CSUN Council of Library Dean’s Student Success Committee. The work the CSU does in supporting our first-generation students and other students who have overcome hurdles to reach higher education is crucially valuable. I hope to bring a focus on equity and measurable results to CARL.
Communications Officer: Beth Namei
I was just elected to be the Director-at-Large representing Private Institutions and will be serving as the first ever Communications Officer for CARL. As part of my inaugural duties, I will be fleshing out and documenting the responsibilities of this new role in collaboration with CARL Board members and key stakeholders, such as the CARL Newsletter Editor, the Website manager, and Interest Group chairs. The goal is to create a coordinated and united communications strategy for CARL and all of the various interest groups so our membership can get the most up-to-date information about various events and developments.
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CARL BUSINESS
CARL Job Listings
CARL hosts a list of job openings at California academic and research libraries. Looking for a new opportunity? Hiring at your library? Read or submit listings at https://carl-acrl.org/jobslist/.
Interest Groups
CARLDIG-S (CARL Discussion Interest Group - South)
Save the Date! Fall Program 2022 - Pivot! Adaptation & Flexibility in Reference Services
When: Friday, December 2nd (half day)
Where: Online via Zoom
On Friday, December 2nd, CARLDIG-S will host a half day virtual program, “Pivot! Adaptation & Flexibility in Reference Services.” Attendees will hear from various presenters discussing experiences with change, adaption, and flexibility in a fluid academic environment. The COVID-19 pandemic proved reference professionals nimble as we navigated modality changes, budget constraints/cuts, loss of personnel/vacancies, and work life balance. As various libraries continue to discover a new normal, let’s discuss how pivoting impacted your services, individual selves, and user experiences. A call for proposals will be sent out in the fall, and more information will be available at the CARLDIG-S website: http://www.carl-acrl.org/ig/carldigs/ and our CARLDIG-S LibGuide.
For more information, please contact our Chair, Leanna Pagano, at lpagano@callutheran.edu. We hope to see you there!
SCIL: Southern California Instruction Librarians
Congratulations to our incoming Executive Board members, who are serving under the leadership of incoming Chair Kat Koziar. Thank you to all of the candidates who ran for office and all who voted! All terms begin July 2022.
- Chair: Kat Koziar
- Vice Chair/Chair Elect: Michelle Brasseur
- Secretary: Natalie Marquez
- Past chair: Timothy Chu
Best,
Michelle DeMars
SCIL Past Chair
SEAL (Science & Engineering Academic Librarians)
A group of librarians are working on re-starting the SEAL interest group. The pandemic initially delayed their work, but the team is eager to begin planning for virtual events soon. Please contact Michele Potter to connect with SEAL.
ALIGN (Academic Librarians' Interest Group North)
Visit the ALIGN Website or contact Ken Lyons at kbplyons@ucsc.edu for more information about this interest group.
DIAL (Diversity in Academic Libraries)
Visit the DIAL Website or contact Rayheem Eskridge at rayheem.eskridge470@csuci.edu or Edeama Onwuchekwa at eonwuchekwa@sdccd.edu for more information on this interest group.
SCORE (Scholarly Communication and Open Resources for Education)
SCORE meets virtually on a quarterly basis and meeting minutes are available. Subscribe to the SCORE listserv to find out when they're meeting next!
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
Britt Foster 
Where do you currently work, and what is your job title/role?
I am an associate librarian at California State University, Fresno: I work in our Research Services unit, which is our instruction and reference unit. I am liaison to several of our Agricultural Sciences departments, including Ag Business, Food Science and Nutrition, Plant Science, Viticulture and Enology, and Child and Family Science. I am also the coordinator of our Viticulture and Enology Library, a small collection embedded in our grape growing and winemaking program
Why did you join CARL? What do you most enjoy about being a CARL member?
CARL was highly recommended to me by several colleagues when I started a new, tenure-track role. My favorite thing about CARL is both the affinity and diversity I find within the membership: I love learning from and connecting with colleagues whose experiences parallel my institutional context, and, from those who work in a very different environment, with a different patron base. In particular, I value learning from my colleagues in community colleges, as I work with a lot of transfer students.
Are you working on anything special right now or in the near future you'd like to share with other CARL members?
Just before the pandemic, I completed a CSU system-wide Student Success Analytics fellowship through our institutional research office. It was a good opportunity to grapple with my own concerns around analytics, and to learn about course-level data I can access to target my outreach and student support work. I’m hoping to shape this into a research project looking at courses with high rates of Ds, Fs, and Withdraws within minoritized, first-gen, and Pell-eligible student populations, and if certain library-related interventions can support students enrolled in these courses towards more equitable outcomes.
What new approaches to your work have you tried recently? Have any of them been particularly successful or challenging?
I was fortunate to serve as co-chair of the ACRL Science and Technology Section Framework for Information Literacy task force, where we created a companion document to the Framework through a STEM lens. It’s renewed my energy to find ways to incorporate higher-level information literacy understanding into my instruction, especially pushing beyond the one-shot for alternative approaches that allow more embedded and scaffolded learning. I’m early in investigating this, so a lot feels like a challenge! But, I’m excited by it, as well.
What’s something you recently read/watched/listened to that you can’t stop thinking about or is helping you process recent events? Why?
A lot of my self-care comes from my love of gardens and gardening, and I’m obsessed with Luis Barragán’s landscape architecture right now. The way he worked with light, color, and textures like rust, concrete and terra cotta are really inspiring, and I find them quietly joyful and serene. I have several books on his garden design on order, and I can't wait to read through them.
Do you have a colleague you'd like to recommend for the Member Spotlight column? Email the Editor for more information at carlnewsletter@gmail.com.
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PEOPLE AND PLACES NEWS
Appointments and Promotions
Chloe Pascual has been awarded tenure, Michelle DeMars has been awarded tenure and promotion and Khue Duong has been awarded promotion from CSU-Long Beach.
Nicole Branch has been selected as Santa Clara University's first Dean of the University Library. Since joining the library's staff in 2014, she has held several different positions, most recently as Associate University Librarian for Learning and Engagement. For the past two years, she has also been serving as one of the Co-Interim University Librarians.
Sarah Smith has been selected as Santa Clara University's Head of Access and Delivery Services. Previously she has been the Interlibrary Loan & Access Services Supervisor at the library. Before that, she worked as a librarian at several different libraries in Australia.
Benjamin Hall has joined the staff of Santa Clara University as its Business and Data Services Librarian. Previously, he was a Business Librarian at the Business Library at Michigan State University.
Publications, Presentations, and Awards
On May 6th, Deborah Farber presented the lightning talk: "Coming Together Around a Prize Wheel: An Information Literacy Open House" at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. This was her first time presenting at a national conference.
Past CARLDIG-S Chairs, Dr. Yvonne Wilber (2020) and Meghan Kwast (2021), co-authored two articles with California Lutheran University faculty member, Jolivette Mecenas: “Antiracist and Faith-based: Critical Pedagogy-Informed Writing and Information Literacy Instruction at a Hispanic-Serving, Lutheran Liberal Arts University” in Radical Teacher and “Aligning Practice with Belief: Bringing Anti-Racist Information Literacy and Writing Instruction to an HSI Lutheran University” in Writing Program Administration.
Nicollette Brant, CSU, Long Beach published "A business librarian’s experience with conducting a collections audit for diversity and inclusion" in the Academic BRASS newsletter, Volume 17, No. 1, Spring 2022.
Kevin Augustine (California State University, Stanislaus) presented at LILAC: The Information
Literacy Conference 2022 in April 2022. The presentation was called "Implementing the
Question Formulation Technique in a first-year composition course throughout the pandemic."
Conference Reports
CARL Conference March 2022: The Equity Minded Academic Library
Blanca Garcia-Barron, Library Technician, Mt. San Jacinto College
MLIS Student, San Jose State University
Ilene F. Rockman CARL/ACRL Conference Scholarship, 2022
Attending this year’s CARL conference was significant at this early stage of my career. I recently pivoted from one sector of academia to another and encountered the same issues that are endemic to both higher education and academia. I continue to feel isolated from a lack of community within librarianship, especially as a woman of color with a critical consciousness towards the field and my practice. However, the CARL conference introduced me to librarians, library workers, and fellow students that also share a spirit and commitment to equity, antiracism, and critical librarianship. Though the pushback to these practices and ideas are ever present at our institutions and workspaces, many of the presentations demonstrated how to enact gradual change without passiveness or complacency. I was especially inspired by keynote speaker, Sandy Enriquez, and her presentation on slow librarianship, outreach, and student-centered equitable and antiracist practices. I have always worked towards making my work and practice meaningful to the students I serve and sometimes that feels incredibly lonely. But I am thankful that I had the opportunity to attend this conference since it introduced me to many great BIPOC library workers and CARL members that share the same spirit and dedication to our work.
CARL Across the Pond: LILAC Conference Impressions
Kevin Augustine, Research & Instruction Librarian, Stanislaus State University
Summary of the event
The Library Information Literacy Advisory Council (LILAC) held its 16th annual conference at Manchester Metropolitan University from April 11-13, 2022. The conference is one of the largest in the United Kingdom dedicated to information literacy, with eight parallel sessions hosting over 50 presentations. Keynote speakers included Emily Drabinski, recently elected ALA president for 2023-24.
Presenting and/or attending a conference can be an incredible opportunity to share and network with others. Doing so overseas raises more excitement and new challenges. As the only presenter from California, the biggest challenges for me involved translation and interpretation, whether that was translating the British English language of concepts, services models and theories; interpreting frameworks of information literacy unique to U.K. institutions; or interpreting social etiquette and norms of an in-person event during a pandemic.
Shared purposes and goals, different language
During my time at the conference, the language barrier of translating British English librarianship concepts, service models, and theories became a unique challenge to overcome. Take a concept like digital fluency. Introduced in conjunction with information literacy in a framework by University of Liverpool librarians, digital fluency is defined as the ability to critically think about information while using digital platforms to act on a problem or collaborate with others. University of Liverpool librarians shared their development and integration of a framework connecting information literacy and digital fluency that aligned with their institution’s strategy titled Curriculum 2021. During the presentation, librarians used phrases like senior leaders (administrators), academic staff (themselves), and KnowHow (a comprehensive program of workshops facilitated through SpringShare), that on the surface sounds so foreign yet shares a common bond to how we refer to elements of our work environment.
Interpreting frameworks large and small
ACRL’s Framework is the predominant set of core conceptual understandings within information literacy for academic libraries in the United States. Rarely do we see interpretations of information literacy in a framework on a smaller, institutional level. In the United Kingdom, however, information literacy frameworks have been developed nationally and within individual institutions.
Librarians at the University of Sheffield discussed their project on integrating and evaluating the Information and Digital Literacy (IDL) Framework within the university’s Skills, Attributes and Employability program and in particular, recognizing the principles of being information literate within the mySkills portfolio, which tracks the progress of skills and attributes students achieve over their academic careers. The IDL Framework’s six literacies, similar to the ACRL Framework’s frames, demonstrate the depth of interconnected aspects within information literacy, uniquely developed within the university and influenced by the institution’s larger curriculum goals.
In-person engagement during the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of academic librarianship is vast and the impact on services, modes of communicating and networking continues to be felt today. At the time of this writing, the thought of attending in-person events, even on your campus, may be met with opposition due to health and safety concerns. For librarians on tenure-track lines throughout California, we are faced with a dilemma of balancing these health and safety concerns with the prospects of advancing the research and scholarship of our discipline by attending events that showcase our commitment to our institutions.
While the conference facilitators made it clear to respect the choices attendees and presenters made with regard to social distancing, masks, and other safety measures, many conference participants from the U.K. did not wear masks or social distance. This made it a challenge to engage, given attendees from the United States, including myself, needed a negative test result to re-enter the country. Despite the difference in social norms and etiquette, the genuine interactions and conversations I had with others brought a surreal sense of normalcy.
I recommend CARL members dedicated to information literacy instruction consider sharing their work with others at future LILAC conferences. The excitement outweighs the challenges and the event offers Californians the opportunity to demonstrate our passion in advancing information literacy research to peers overseas.
Esperanza del Valle MLIS Scholarship
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BOARD MEETING NOTES
CARL Board Meeting Agenda
Date: June 10, 2022
Present:
Rachel Jaffe
Shamika Simpson
Jennifer Silverman
Laura Wimberley
Beth Namei
Ken Lyons
Annette Young
Ethan Annis
Kelly Janousek
David Drexler
Lali Nataraj
Edeama Onwuchekwa
Absent:
Kelli Hines
Liz Galoozis
Meeting Agenda
- Welcome & Introductions
- Each member gave brief introductions
- Amend/Approve Agenda
- Amend/Approve Minutes from March meeting
- Laura moved to approve; Annette seconded. All approved.
- Awards Liaison Report (Ken)
- Rockman Scholarship
- Committee: Jason DeCastro (Golden Gate U); Brandee Idleman (Irvine Valley College); Jackie Kinsey (Moorpark College); Marco Ruiz (CSUCI), Chair
- Awarded for attendance at 2022 CARL Conference to:
- Blanca Garcia-Barron (MLIS student, SJSU)
- Noelle Long (MLIS student, UCLA)
- Annual—for attendance at ACRL or CARL—so next round scheduled to begin with appointment of new committee in September
- Kelly suggested asking the students to write about their experience for the CARL newsletter.
- ACTION: Jennifer will reach out to Rockman Scholarship students, asking them to write something for the newsletter
- Outstanding CARL member
- Committee: Ken, Rachel, Joseph Aubele (CSULB)
- Should have been awarded at CARL Conference two months ago
- Committee recommend award to DIAL Past-Chair Rayheem Eskridge
- Committee propose Lifetime Achievement Award to Conference Committee Chair Allison Carr
- Discussion about including the Lifetime Achievement Award in bylaws and how frequently it is awarded. Jennifer mentioned to add it to standing rules (rather than bylaws) on Outstanding CARL Member Award, as a special designation (e.g., "Outstanding CARL Member with Lifetime Achievement").
- Laura mentioned the possibility of the Lifetime Achievement Award being a nomination process.
- ACTION: Ken will edit the Lifetime Achievement proposal and submit it to the board for approval by email.
- Ken moved to approve the Outstanding Award goes to Rayheem Eskridge and proposed the Lifetime Achievement Award to Conference Committee Chair Allison Carr. Shamika seconded. All Approved.
- Gayatri Singh Award
- Committee: Cristela Garcia-Spitz (UCSD), Talitha Matlin (CSUSM), Lalitha Nataraj (CSUSM), Dominique Turnbow (UCSD)
- Contacted inaugural committee, who report no activity
- Question: Is award for completed project, or to fund a project to be completed? Created to be either
- Review of award criteria needed
- Once completed, webpage needs to be created (as for other awards committees)
- Since timeline states award should be decided in February prior to conference and presented at conference, should committee now just wait until 2023 to begin work, prior to 2024 conference?
- Lali shared that the group has not yet had much progress, but they will begin work on this more in August. At that point, the group will want to publicize the award more. More information will be available around August. They believe the call will go out before November. Details of Singh awards.
- Ken shared that the timeline can be moved, since it’s not a conference year, so work can actually begin in August of next year (2023)
- Lali said that Spring 2024 could be when it’s awarded.
- Research grant
- Committee: Ken; Sarah Dahlen (CSUMB); Norma Durian (LaVerne U); Brian Greene (Columbia College); Jennifer Thompson (College of the Canyons)
- Committee already constituted, comprising four returning from previous committee of five!
- Timeline states committee to begin work in August following conference, in order to award grant by year-end and allow recipient ~15 months to complete work prior to presenting at following conference
- Announcement: DaL Liaison Appointments
- Interest Group Coordinator: Edeama
- Awards Committee Liaison: Ken
- ACRL Chapter Council Delegate: Laura
- Communications Officer: Beth
- 2022 Conference Wrap-Up
- Received $4500 in sponsorships
- Earned $4,211.68 from conference, but paid $13,680 in cancellation fees to Holiday Inn.
- Jennifer shared that this cancellation fee is only half of what we actually owed, because we confirmed rebooking the next conference at this same location.
- 2024 Conference Planning
- Rachel reached out to Ali about anyone returning to plan this committee, but has not heard back. The planning committee has expressed that this might have been their last year, so we are waiting to hear back.
- We do have the same location for the conference, because of the hefty cancellation fee. See item 6.
- Discussion about recruiting new conference planning committee members.
- Rachel and Kelly suggested forming this conference committee by July.
- Beth suggested asking the previous committee to be advisors for the new committee members. This would help us recruit new members.
- 2022 Nominations & Election
- It’s unclear who is responsible for leading this committee.
- Rachel shared that she will not be continuing past January. Kelly said she could do it again, but would need some assistance, as it was very difficult to recruit.
- Kelly shared some strategies she used to recruit – contacting people who have shown past interest, leaders from IG, etc.
- Kelly shared the following open positions:
- VP elect
- UC Director At Large
- Membership Director
- Shamika suggested making a video with past members sharing their experience and how it impacted their work, to help recruit.
- Shamika agreed to be on the nominating committee.
- Kelly shared we used to highlight board members in the newsletter in a similar capacity that Shamika shared.
- ACRL Membership Requirements & Funding for CARLEX Officers' Membership Fees
- ACRL Bylaws, Article XIV: Chapters: “Section 2. Members and officers. A chapter may admit members who are not members of the national Association; however, the president (chair) and the vice-president (vice-chair) of each chapter shall be members of the national Association.”
- CARL Bylaws: “Article VI: Elected Officers. Section 1. Elected Officers. The elected officers of the Association shall be President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Director, and four (4) Directors-at-Large, all of whom shall be members of ACRL and CARL.”
- Rachel recommends editing our bylaws to not require all members to have ACRL memberships, to match the ACRL bylaws.
- Beth volunteered to make this change.
- This change would be on our 2023 ballot.
- Discussion about the existing funds ($500) and how members would ask for the funds. Rachel suggested adding language about this to the standing rules.
- ACTION: Jennifer and Rachel will work on adding language to the standing rules about applications for funding ACRL membership.
- ACTION: Beth will edit bylaws to not require all members to have ACRL memberships, to match the ACRL bylaws
- Strategic Planning/Visioning (Shamika)
- Interest Group Coordinator Report (Edeama)
- Edeama sent an email requesting a meeting with all IG coordinators, but only received 2 responses. Will meet with them in the future and send another email out.
- Edeama will also reach out via the newsletter.
- Communications Officer Report (Beth)
- My apologies, I have nothing to report yet. I’m behind due to a family emergency.
- Rachel shared that she has no interest in writing presidential messages, but we will take it on as a collective responsibility instead. Rachel asked if we have any ideas.
- Laura suggested to share support for open access and reprint the letter(s) that were sent to CA reps, to encourage members to contact their elected officials and do the same. (see #15)
- Kelly shared that we can start recruiting for CARL. Kelly offered to write a couple of paragraphs.
- Jennifer suggested an announcement of the DaL positions.
- ACTION: Rachel will add a document to the Google Drive and get it ready for Kelli on the 15th
- ACRL (Laura)
- Rachel shared that we were asked to prepare letters to be sent to CA reps for free access for publicly funded education. They have been sent off and we received confirmation.
- Web Assessment Committee (Ken, David, Kelli)
- Membership platform
- Received detailed written response on Wild Apricot from Nancy Schuler of Florida Association of College & Research Libraries
- Interviewed Ginger Jelinek of Nebraska Library Association on StarChapter (who happened to have also used Wild Apricot)
- Result: Wild Apricot seems to be edging ahead, with more and easier-to-use features than StarChapter, at comparable price; still too close to call though
- Next task: Trials of each platform (definitely available from WA; enquiring with StarChapter as to whether 'live demo' from Sales Department is in lieu of trial)
- ACTION: Ken: Contact StarChapter about "live demo" vs. actual trial & arrange Wild Apricot trial
- Website
- Received contact information from Rachel for Head of Archives & Special Collections at CSUDH, who is our contact for CARL Archive accruals
- CSUDH open to additional submissions, both print and digital
- Site cleanup, based on site inventory spreadsheet, over summer
- ACTION: Ken, David, Kelli: Test platform(s) on trial this summer
- David shared information about archiving the website and some of the challenges involved. There are several different formats, html, mailchimp, wordpress, facebook, etc. He is working with the archivist at Dominguez Hills and making efforts to ensure it is represented properly.
- ACTION: David: Contact CSUDH with material to archive, as well as delete all site content so designated in site inventory spreadsheet
- Membership Report (Jennifer, Ken)
- All memberships expire 8/31. Any ideas of how to make renewals easier?
- Ken working on aligning YM membership roster with CARLALL (and IG?) listserv
- IG selections in YM: Should we provide IGs with lists from YM?
- Ken, Rachel, and Kelly shared support for this idea. Rachel asked about timeline, when would it make the most sense to send IGs this list? When do people generally renew?
- Membership coordinator would send report to the IG coordinator to send out to IGs.
- Ken suggested sending messaging after the deadline that “Your membership has expired”.
- 257 Members, more members around the conference.
- ACTION: Ken: Complete alignment of YM paid membership with listserv membership
- ACTION: Ken and Jennifer will meet to figure out process of sending IG lists after renewal period
- ACTION: Ken will work on wording for expired memberships
- Treasurer Report (Jennifer)
- Concerns:
- Trouble adding Laura as signer on bank account
- ACTION: Laura will follow up with the bank
- Trouble getting a response about our liability insurance renewal (expired 5/1)
- ACTION: Jennifer will try to contact the insurance company again
- Trouble getting a response from our accounting firm regarding having our taxes done – concerned that our tax period may have passed.
- Kelly suggested asking ACRL if they can help us, and suggested asking the Executive Director.
- ACTION: Rachel will reach out to someone (maybe the Executive Director) at ACRL and include Jennifer
- Rachel suggested going with a new CPA.
- ACTION: Rachel will try to contact Kelly's CPA contact
- Membership Committee Update (Ethan)
- There is nothing significant to report
- EI Coordinator (Liz)
- Review Action Items (Annette)
- Action items reviewed and edited, as needed.
Appendix A - Board Member Reports
Elected Members
- Past President
- Answered emails and questions
- Treasurer
- Other than issues listed above, all is well.
- Membership Director
- 257 total: 231 Members, 16 students, 10 retired
- 56 CC, 75 CSU, 56 Private, 38 UC
- No Report: President; Vice President; Secretary; ACRL Chapters Council Delegate; Director-at-Large, Community Colleges; Director-at-Large, Private Colleges and Universities; Director-at-Large, UC; Director-at-Large, CSU
Appointed Members
- Newsletter Editor
- Please submit any items for the summer newsletter by June 15, 2022.
- No Report: Web Coordinator, Mentorship Committee Chair
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CARL LEADERSHIP 2021
PRESIDENT
Rachel Jaffe
UC Santa Cruz
jaffer@ucsc.edu
PAST PRESIDENT
Kelly Janousek
CSU Long Beach
kelly.janousek@csulb.edu
VICE PRESIDENT
Shamika J. Simpson
Long Beach City College
ssimpson@lbcc.edu
SECRETARY
Annette Young
Cypress College
TREASURER
Jennifer Silverman
West Coast University
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR
Jennifer Silverman (interim)
West Coast University
ACRL CHAPTERS COUNCIL DELEGATE
Laura Wimberley
CSU Northridge
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DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Edeama Onwuchekwa
San Diego Community College
eonwuchekwa@sdccd.edu
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, CSU
Laura Wimberley
CSU Northridge
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, PRIVATE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Beth Namei
Claremont Colleges
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, UC
Ken Lyons
UC Santa Cruz
kbplyons@ucsc.edu
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Kelli Hines
Western University of Health Sciences
khines@westernu.edu
WEBSITE COORDINATOR
Dave Drexler
CSU Fresno
ddrexel@csufresno.edu
MENTORING PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Ethan Annis
Dominican University of California, San Rafael
ethan@ethanannis.com
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